The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-08-25
TOWN AND COUNTRY.
LOCAL LAcOHrcS PIcKED UP HERE AND
THERE BY OUR EAGLE-EYED
REPORTERS.

the decline.
Look out and prepare for big fall trade.
All indications point that way.
Sow plenty of turnips. They are excel
lent for stock besides family use.
There is always room for one more
subscribers name on our mail books.
Some Of onr merchants are preparing for
their regular scmi-annual trip North.
Thermometers become lower spirited as
colder weather approaches. This is true Of
the ice dealer also.
Subscribe for the GOLD LEAF. This is a
good creed to adopt if you believe in en-
eouraging home enterprises.
Pull together for the npbuilding of your
town and county. 1t requires united effort
to accomplish the best results.
Henderson is cultivating new zeal every
wear. Our people are determined that the
town shall rapidly go on improving.
Rev. j. II. Page will preach at the NJ.
p. church at $50 O'Clock this (Thursday)
evening The public cordially invited.
Our people should remember that the
weather will not always be thus and lay
in supply OF wood and coal in due season.
Now is the time to plant your advertise
ment in the GOLD LEAF if you would reap
full harvest of business from the fall
trade.
Carl Pretzel says advice that has no
market value is good thing to give away.
And that is about the only kind some peO-
pie give
Fall wheat planting will soon be in
order Let good crop be seeded. Every
farmer who can ought to make his own
-four supply.
Mr. Stephens HcndersOn's popular book
seller and stationer, has full supply Of
school books and other neccSsaries of the
school room on hand.
Henderson needs small manufacturing
enterprises. Upon these the rapid growth
of the town depends in a great measure.
Let us encourage all such.
We want every farmer in the county to
plant wheat. Begin now to make your ar
engagements by procuring good seed and
selecting and preparing your land.
There were never finer prospects for a
good corn crop than at present. The re-
ports from all sections of Vance and adj
Joining counties are of the most encOurag-
anS character.
The SeabOard Airline offers cheap cX-
cursions rates to Virginia Beach, round
trip tickets being sold at 1886. Persons
must leave on the Saturday night train and
return Monday morning.
The watermelon crop this season has been
the largest and the melons better than we
have ever known them. They were never
seen in larger quantities and finer quality
in these parts we are sure.
The revolver must gO-Ellisville,
IMiss.) Eagle.
The trouble is the revolver goes too much
now. 1t is the fellow who persists in fool
ing with it that should 90.
If you should keep a scrap-book, and put
in it all the useful things you find in your
weekly paper, you would be surprised at
the end of the year to find how much infor-
nation you had for the price.
Every man in Vance county ought to take
the GOLD LEAF. 1t is thorough Out-and-
out home paper and looks we'll after all
matters that concern our people. Its inter-
ests are your interests always.
Charlotte is perhaps the only town in the
South that is making direct importations of
goOdS.-CharlOtte Chronicle.
But Henderson makes direct eXporta-
tiOnS, and that is something better
The Summerville J0urnal says: An arti-
Gle is printed on Glow to Treat Your
Wife" One good way would be to treat
her as we'll as you did before you married
her, but few married men do that.
New cotton has appeared at Wilmington.
In the meantime Henderson is ahead on
new tobacco-both as to quality sold and
prices obtained. An average of $500 per
hundred IS pretty good for "primings," is
1t not?
All indications point to good crop yield
this fall. Let the farmers pay their debts
and then keep out of debt. One dollar cash
is worth more than dollar credit, will
buy more goods, and the peace of mind
purchased With the cash is immense.
Mr.. Thos. W. Foster of LouiSburg died
last week. Deceased at one time lived in
Henderson and had many friends here who
will be sorry to learn of his death. He
was of a genial temperament and good
natured disposition, liked by all who knew
him.
The GOLD LEAF feels that the bright
prospects for crops augurs we'll for large
increase of subscriptions this fall and VT
ask every man in Vance TO be cur agent
Support your own home paper. and enable
it to work for the county. town and State
with a vim
The GOLD LEAF hears of a number O
other new building enterprises soon to b,
projected. Verify building and improve
ment boom has struck Henderson. 1t ma,
not be as big as in some other places; bu
It is here, and with prospect of CROWN,
much larger.
The Southern Tobacco Journal says on
good friend W. f. Gary was the boss sur
bather at MOrehead last weak. Tn
Journal must know that Nv. E" neve
takes second-place in anything, whether
be surf bathing, buying tobacco, or doini
something else
The ToFchtisM says the signs of q mann
Iaoth boom are already visible and Oxford
when the new railroad reaches town, vii
have grand jubilee. The future i'm.
portance of the place is established be
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